Amount brought over To Lieut John McClallen — Surgeons Mate John I Coffin, including 12½ D^rs short calculated on Rations in a settlement made with him June 19 1797. making the above mentioned sum of . . . . D^rs The difference between this amount and that of the transmitted by you arises from the above mentioned calculations in M^r Coffin's former account of Subsist a short charge of one half Cent now made by him & th ferent Officers in their respective accounts from the they were last settled with for Subsistence to the 31 May that is to say 25½ in lieu of 25 Cents p Ration Same &c. W^m Simmons Acct --- David Henley Esq^r. [✓] Department of Wa A.W.D. Accountants Off Knoxville, Tennesee September 1^st 179[7] Sir I received your letter of 31 July covering an of Ensign William P. Smith amounting to sixty dollar is inadmissible at this Office I therefore return it to enclosed. Herewith you will receive abstract of W from 11^th to 19^th August 1797 Same &c. W^m Simmons Acct